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Introduction: A population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium where the allele and genotype frequencies remain constant over generations. Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium follows the given equation, p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1, where, p2 represents the dominant homozygous genotype, q2 represents the recessive homozygous genotype and 2pq represent the heterozygous genotype.
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